It isn't the pony that makes the hat, it is the hat that makes the pony.

Being a teenager, is hard.
Most ponies, can attest to this, yet imagine being the only of your kind in your society.
When attending a prestigious high school, being a dragon, or a griffin, life just gets harder.
Adolescent struggles, as Spike grows up, life becoming a dragging idealism, sadness and woe resulting from the simple fact that ponies fear dragons.
Brutus the griffin, unsure about himself, having always been surrounded by ponies.
He sees himself as more pony than griffin, yet can others do the same?
Scootaloo though, adopted, loved, and a brilliant dancer, she is happy, for the first time in her life, but now has to face the fact that sometimes, other ponies are just mean.
Sweetie Belle, a brilliant singer, struggles to overcome societies decision that she must stick with one genre, and one alone.
Applebloom a simple artist, who wants nothing better than to show ponies what she sees in life, even when they won't let her be herself.
Caduceus, just yearns to heal others, yet he himself is not allowed to exist in the way he truly wants to.

We all know the famous hero, Mare Do Well, but why does she act the way she does?
Why does she always strive to help others, and spread her message of love?
In this letter, submitted to the Newsponies of Equestria, the masked hero herself tells us why.
Read on, and gain a deeper understanding of one of Equestria's greatest ponies.

As a child, David Kane was a loner. His only escape from a sad, depressing life as an orphan being an entertaining video game.
Years later, now a Made man of a drug smuggling and dealing Mafia, he finds himself in the position to help a stranger.
When he does, he gains the love and affection of another, who he finds much more important to him than the life he knows.
One day, this same person gives him an offer, to travel to a world he thought was unreal. He accepts, and begins a new life.
A new body, a new world, and what the Darwin's, he's still an ape.
That's not how it goes.

Hunter, a 10 year old child arrives in Equestria, through a mistake in an experiment of his father's.
Orphaned, he finds himself under the scrutiny of Equstria's greatest magicians and one of its kindest pegasi.
He cant return home, so a way must be found for him to live in Equestria.

Will become more mature as the character develops, Please offer any thoughts, negative of positive, first story, so any help would be great